Quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Western Australia will resume from midday tomorrow, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says.
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It comes after it was revealed today a person managed during the Perth lockdown to fly from Perth to Auckland, via Sydney, and travelled on to Northland.
Perth and the nearby Peel Region, to the city's south, went into a short lockdown on Friday after a Covid-19 cluster was identified at a quarantine hotel.
That prompted New Zealand to put a pause on the trans-Tasman bubble for Western Australia.
The Perth and Peel lockdown ended today, and Hipkins this evening announced travel would soon resume.
The travel pause is only lifted for those who are not identified as contacts, he says.
All identified casual contacts - those who were at the locations of interest at the published time - will need to self-isolate for five days and receive a negative test.
An additional New Zealand requirement means they will need to continue to monitor their symptoms in place and will not be allowed to travel to New Zealand until 14 days after they were at the location of interest.
Hipkins said the Government was satisfied the risk was low.
"The advice is that the Perth cluster appears to be contained and the post-lockdown transition response measures the Western Australia government introduced will provide an additional layer of assurance," he said.